Love and language
WHAT IS LOVE?
LOVE. The most wonderful and the strangest thing in the world. Love - one of the most fundamental and common themes in world culture and art. The arguments about love and its analysis as a phenomenon date back to ancient philosophy. Love is also considered as a philosophical category, in the form of subjective attitudes, intimate feelings which are directed to the object of love.
The wоrd "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure.
But how does language construct love? How many words exist to express this feeling in different languages? And, is it right to call it “feeling”? We may also call it like “outlier of phenethylamines in the brain” and it will be correct. So, let’s analyze.
The English Word “LOVE”. Origin, meanings and idioms.
Origin:
The word love goes back to the very roots of the English language. Old English lufu is related to Old Frisian luve, Old High German luba, Gothic lubo. There is a cognate lof in early forms of the Scandinavian languages. The Indo-European root is also behind Latin lubet meaning it is pleasing and lubido meaning desire. The word is recorded from the earliest English writings in the 8th century.
Meaning:
In the Oxford dictionary the word love is described as “strong feeling of affection”.
It’s also interpreted as “a great interest and pleasure in something”, “ [count noun] a person or thing that one love”, “(in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil: [apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e. the love of the game, not for money); folk etymology has connected the word with French l'oeuf 'egg', from the resemblance in shape between an egg and a zero]
Idioms:
for love for pleasure rather than profit: he played for the love of the game for the love of God used to accompany an urgent request or to express annoyance or surprise:for the love of God, get me out of here! for the love of Mike
LOVE. The most wonderful and the strangest thing in the world. Love - one of the most fundamental and common themes in world culture and art. The arguments about love and its analysis as a phenomenon date back to ancient philosophy. Love is also considered as a philosophical category, in the form of subjective attitudes, intimate feelings which are directed to the object of love.
The wоrd "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure.
But how does language construct love? How many words exist to express this feeling in different languages? And, is it right to call it “feeling”? We may also call it like “outlier of phenethylamines in the brain” and it will be correct. So, let’s analyze.
The English Word “LOVE”. Origin, meanings and idioms.
Origin:
The word love goes back to the very roots of the English language. Old English lufu is related to Old Frisian luve, Old High German luba, Gothic lubo. There is a cognate lof in early forms of the Scandinavian languages. The Indo-European root is also behind Latin lubet meaning it is pleasing and lubido meaning desire. The word is recorded from the earliest English writings in the 8th century.
Meaning:
In the Oxford dictionary the word love is described as “strong feeling of affection”.
It’s also interpreted as “a great interest and pleasure in something”, “ [count noun] a person or thing that one love”, “(in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil: [apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e. the love of the game, not for money); folk etymology has connected the word with French l'oeuf 'egg', from the resemblance in shape between an egg and a zero]
Idioms:
for love for pleasure rather than profit: he played for the love of the game for the love of God used to accompany an urgent request or to express annoyance or surprise:for the love of God, get me out of here! for the love of Mike